So earlier this month, I decided I wanted to learn how Shortcuts was handling the creation of home screen icons.Īfter a few weeks of experiments and refinements, I ended up reverse-engineering Shortcuts’ ‘Add to Home Screen’ implementation, which turns out to be an evolution of Workflow’s existing hack based on Safari and web clips. I’ve always been intrigued by Workflow’s implementation of ‘Add to Home Screen’ – a feature that Apple kept in the transition to the Shortcuts app, and which allows users to create home screen icons to launch their favorite shortcuts. You can get the updated shortcut at the end of this post. The shortcut is now much faster to run (takes about 5 seconds instead of 20) and doesn’t need to save any file in your Dropbox account. Update: Thanks to MacStories reader Thomas, I was able to remove the need to upload image assets to Dropbox.
